The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-10
Views of George C. Gorham.

the courage OIL MS CONVICTIONS, on Inc subject or
the next presidency. He thinks the Republicans
win elect Cleveland's successor if they nominate
the right man. He thinks they will nominate
the right man, and that man is John Sherman
He says the latter is about the only brave, ont
spoken Republican leader we have left,
and around him will cluster the
old Republican strength undmnished,
if he is nominated. Any other by
the party will be 6 compromise with crime and
final surrender to the South and an acquiescence
in the Reputation of the work of. and the prin-
ciples of, the Republican party, and al &C
knowledg ement of the legitimacy of the South
err oligarchy and the notification of the four
teenth and fifteenth amendments, which were
the sum and crown of the work of the Repub-
lcan party He says the Republicans OF the
North are falling into their old ways of timidity
and trucking before the superior assumption
and assertion of the South. and the whey faced
Republicans Of the North to-day duplicate the
doueh-faced Northern politicians of ante-belium
times.
There is the old fear cropping out of offend
ing the South, and when some half mugwump
Republicans read Sherman's bold. manly utter
man ought not to speak out SO boldly; he may
offend these Southern Democrats and revive
some bitterness of feeling"
The silence of the Republican party the
situation in the South is an acknowledgment of
defeat in what that party lived and fought for.
an acquiescence in the existence of form of
government in the South entirely foreign to
laws and CONSTITUTIONAL fact, the government
by an oligarchy instead of democracy.
When asked about Mr. Blaine, Mr.. Gorham
said: II believe Mr.. Blaine could recover dam
ages in a suit against the Democratic party for
breach of promise, though. of course. | believe
marriage was intended" Said he Mr.. Blaine
is being whispered out of the canvass. When
mans friends keep saying Will it do to nomi-
nate himl Can we elect hm2 Can he carry this,
that or the other StateP that means defeat, and
will defeat Blaine. He himself doesn't know
what to do. He fears two defeats-one at the
hands of the convention; or, if he should secure
the nomination, a defeat at the polls. That
sort of thing anything and
Mr. Blaine's course is in sharp contrast to the
fearless and eloquent, and withal, loyal Repub-
Whatever the Republican party and
stands for is embodied in Sherman's Nashville
and Springfield speeches. If any stand short of
that is taken. then the action is equivalent to
complete surrender to the Southern oligarchial
system, and its consequent 153 solid electoral
votes. 1t will be an acknowledgment of the rev
oution of 1874 and 1875 and the notification of
the war amendments and the victory won by the
superior shrewdness and political tenaciJy and
organization of the South to defeat the main
suits of the war and the work of the Republican
party. The negro gets his right from just
high a source as his former master does. and Is
entitled to every right under the Constitution
that a white is. I don't think Mr..
Cleveland will have a chance to run against Mr.
Blaine He will have to be gfoomed for different
sort of race. The Democrats cannot elect
Democrat. They prefer the mugwumps in pow
to the Republicans. The phenomenon of the
hyperprurent political prudes of tho muRwump
persuasion afiliating with the short haired Dem
ocracy upon friendly terms may be explained
upon the ground that the rnugwumps claim
themselves so immediately respectable they can
furnish respectability enough SO cover the whole
concern, and incapable of contamination.
They used to furnish all the respectability for
party until we got sick of them and threw
Them up Mr. Sherman stands for everything
the Republican party will mean in the next cleo
tion and the nomin alton of a man with other
views or adoption of a platform with other prn-
ciples than those laid down by him in his two
great speeches will be the end of the party as it
now exists, and timid turning back upon its
record, its traditions, and it's purposes"